~50 years of history of labels screwing the vast preponderance of musicians I think you might be looking in the wrong end of that. The preponderance of musicia

~50 years of history of labels screwing the vast preponderance of musicians I think you might be looking in the wrong end of that. The preponderance of musicians screw the labels. They sign a contract, chew up a bunch of production and marketing money, then fail to make music that enough people want to pay for the up front costs. Then the musicians don't have to give back the up front money after making some complete floater of an album. Now, the one percenters of the music world, you know, the acts from the '60s through '90s that 1 out of 3 people actually remember. Lots of them think they should have gotten richer, and lots of them did sign contracts that had they known their label would make them a one percenter they never would have signed. But that isn't the preponderance of musicians. That is just the musicians associated with the preponderance of a label's revenue.